Nicola Tallent

But actually, I thought it was extraordinarily powerful.

if you view it as a piece of art, which is what I do and I like theatre, I thought it was quite an extraordinary moment to be there, considering all that's happened, all that's gone on, that here you have this play and you have the individual alive and sitting on an armchair at the beginning of it discussing what, you know, it's as if he's got us eating the dole.

So there's so much coming at you there, isn't there?

And it's sort of, as well, it doesn't feel awkward.

No, it doesn't.

It sort of seamlessly fits the play and he doesn't,

He's obviously not a skilled actor.

Now, maybe he's done it that many times and he sat in that chair, but he feels very comfortable and it feels like he's actually got elected and you're listening to what he has to say.

Morality of it all.

Morality of two things.

If he wasn't running for election...

how would people feel about it?

Is that what's really... No, I don't think that is it at all.

It's the legitimising of him, the legitimacy of him as sort of a character of Dublin, isn't it?

But I can't totally understand that argument.

And it's similar to when people will say to us and say to us all the time, you're just glamorizing crime.

Yeah.

We're not glamorizing.

We're talking about something that... Okay, people can have their opinion.

Totally.